Der Zauberberg
by Thomas Mann
In the years before the First World War, the young engineer Hans Castorp travels to a Swiss sanatorium to visit his ailing cousin for three weeks — and stays for seven years. Drawn into the timeless, fever-warmed world of Berghof, he is torn between the humanist Settembrini and the fanatical Naphta while falling helplessly in love with the enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. Thomas Mann's monumental novel is a panoramic meditation on illness, time, and a civilization drifting toward catastrophe, for advanced learners ready for a long, immersive read.
"Die Geschichte Hans Castorps, die wir erzählen wollen — nicht um seinetwillen, sondern um der Geschichte willen, die uns in hohem Grade erzählenswert scheint — diese Geschichte ist sehr lange her."
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